User:Maggie Chang

I'm a high school senior at Abraham Lincoln High School. I am in one of the two S.M.A.R.T., or Students Modeling A Research Topic, teams at this school. This is a year-long science project which requires a lot of participation. My team and I have made a model, abstract, and poster of the protein P-glycoprotein for the 2009-2010 academic year. Our teacher is an AP biology teacher at Lincoln High, Mr. Richard Gin, and our mentor/scientist is Anita Grover, a graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) majoring in pharmaceutical sciences. We received plenty of help from UCSF students Ben Koo and Sabine Jeske as well as Dr. Kurt Giles, an assistant professor at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in UCSF. We attended a poster and 3D model presentation at UCSF Mission Bay Campus and practiced answering questions from curious bystanders. On the weekend of April 24-25, 2010, we will go to the ASBMB national experimental Biology Conference in Anaheim, California to present our work and meet the other SMART teams from all over the United States. I have been interested in all types of natural studies and scientific topics since I was a child. I will attend school at the University of California, Santa Cruz and will earn a degree in biology. Later, I will go on to graduate school and earn a degree in marine biology/oceanography.